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单词 rusticize
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rusticizev.

Brit. /ˈrʌstᵻsʌɪz/, U.S. /ˈrəstəˌsaɪz/
Forms: 1800s– rusticise, 1800s– rusticize.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: rustic adj., -ize suffix.
Etymology: < rustic adj. + -ize suffix. Compare rusticate v., ruralize v.
1. intransitive. To speak in a rural dialect. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > a language > dialect > [verb (intransitive)] > use a regional dialect
provincialize1803
rusticize1822
1822 New Monthly Mag. 5 244 Our farmers neither wear cowskin waistcoats, nor rusticise like Hobbinol and Diggon Davy.
2. transitive. To give a rustic character or appearance to (in various senses of rustic adj.); to ruralize.
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society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > peasant or rustic > [verb (transitive)] > countrify in manners or appearance
rurify1593
rusticate1699
rusticize1830
ruralize1883
1830 J. E. Tennent Hist. Mod. Greece II. xiv. 193 A tone of austerity and stern simplicity, which..tended to rusticize society, and banish polish and refinement.
1843 C. G. F. Gore Mod. Chivalry I. xi. 122 That five-and-twenty years spent in the country, had, without rusticizing her manners or appearance, enlarged the experience of Gatty.
1869 R. Browning Ring & Bk. III. viii. 151 We changed our garb, And rusticized ourselves with uncouth hat [etc.].
1909 Musical Times 50 583/2 As to the manner in which the Birmingham professor has rusticised the music,..the village-green conversations between the four wind instruments are worthy of Schubert.
1944 L. Richardson Poet. Theory in Republican Rome iv. 109 An allegory..which has been so completely rusticized.
1997 R. Porter in M. Teich et al. Nature & Society in Hist. Context x. 178 The English love to rusticize their towns, with a penchant for gardens,..pets and house-names like Brookside or Meadowbank.
3. transitive. To send or banish to the country. Obsolete. rare.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting a type of place > inhabit type of place [verb (transitive)] > send to dwell in the country
rusticate1733
rusticize1841
1841 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 49 488 What can interest you or me, Eusebius, rusticized in this odious February?
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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